Ross Payton
Fantasy – RPPR Actual Play
Role Playing Public Radio's recorded RPG sessions
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Jun 25, 2026
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Puppetland: Two Tales 09.12.2016 1:34:55
Sponsor: Get Puppetland now in print and PDF through Arc Dream. Join the fight against Punch the Maker-Killer! Synopsis: One-hour games have never been filled with more humor and horror, courage and cowardice, childlike wonder and childlike terror than the experimental role-playing game Puppetland. In one golden hour, you and your
Upwind: The Three Beasts – Strife 03.11.2016 2:43:04
Sponsor: Biohazard Games is running a Kickstarter for Upwind right now! Check it out to see the rewards and stretch goals, including one for The Three Beasts as a campaign book. Synopsis: The last of the Three Beasts is different than the others. It is not a massive entity able
Upwind: The Three Beasts – Alloy 29.10.2016 2:59:06
Sponsor: Check out the Upwind Kickstarter! Back now so the Three Beasts can be written as a full campaign. Take to the skies yourself! Synopsis: The second Beast, Alloy, is a massive flying war machine capable of destroying any fleet in battle. In order to fight it, the Explorer Knights
Upwind: The Three Beasts – Scale 24.10.2016 2:58:13
Sponsor: The Upwind Kickstarter is in full swing! If you like this adventure, back it so I can write it as a campaign supplement. Synopsis: The crew of the Tender Branch head out to deal with the first of the Three Beasts, the Beast of Scale. A massive flying monster
Upwind: The Three Beasts – Prologue 19.10.2016 2:57:56
Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Biohazard Games. Back the Upwind Kickstarter so the Three Beasts campaign can become a campaign supplement for Upwind! Synopsis: A group of brave Explorer Knights stationed at Outpost Stalwart are tasked with investigating a crashed ship in the Twilight Frontier. They find a blind
Upwind: Bait and Switch – the Fall of the Dread Pirate Margit 14.10.2016 3:19:02
Sponsor: Biohazard Games is running a Kickstarter for Upwind. If you enjoy this AP, back the game! Ross is set to write a campaign for Upwind as a stretch goal. Synopsis: Wherein the player characters are Knights of the Guild’s 5th Fleet, obligated by the Treaties of the Convocation to
13th Age: The Strangling Sea 05.10.2016 3:34:22
Enter the graveyard of doomed ships. Experienced seafarers know better than to risk the dangers of the Stranglesea: that terrible place where castaways cling to existence in the rotting hulks of trapped ships, and deadly creatures feast on the unwary. Now a band of adventurers must enter the Stranglesea and attempt to
Inverse World: The Composer of Souls 24.09.2016 3:24:11
For a long as anyone can remember, the residents of the sleepy community of Hephaestus’ Link have lived in the shadow of the Great Necropolis. A hidden city of the dead that rests upon a massive island floating less that 10 miles from island-ring community. No one in the town
Cairn: Dread Acre Wood 02.07.2016 3:24:17
A long time ago, humans walked the face of the world, but were destroyed for their arrogance and hubris. The Bright Ones lifted up the simple animals of forest and field, giving them the ability to think, build, and stand on their own two feet. In order to keep the
Upwind: Out of Curiosity 20.05.2016 2:51:35
You are an Explorer Knight. You are exceptional. Unique in all the Highlands. You’ve survived the Academy, honed your Potential and now wield extraordinary elemental powers. You have stalwart crewmates, great warships, magical Relics and ancient technology all at your command. Even so, can you survive your first voyage into
Dungeon Crawl Classics: They Served Brandolyn Red 04.05.2016 3:15:59
The village of Portnelle is once again bright and festive. After years of feuding, the town’s most prominent and influential families will finally be making peace as the youngest generations are joined in marriage. However, when an evil born of dark secrets refuses to stay buried, blood will flow like
Dungeon Crawl Classics: Perils of the Sunken City 25.02.2016 3:43:09
Most find death in the crumbling ruins that stretch beyond sight into the mists south of the Great City; once rich districts now claimed by swamp and dark denizens. But for the desperate folk of the city, the ruins offer treasures the Great City denies them: fortune, glory, and a
Dying Earth: The Grand Hotel Perdusz 20.12.2015 4:22:25
Dying Earth is a fantasy RPG based on the works of Jack Vance. Bill ran a game using the rules from the Revivification Folio. A group of travelers finds themselves trapped in a magical hotel, possibly forever, unless they can find a way out of a wizard’s contract that binds
Fate Core: Aphrodite’s Diadem 17.11.2015 2:33:17
Trouble is brewing on Mount Olympus. Beautiful Aphrodite has lost her prized diadem and it is up to a small group of heroes to find the artifact before discord tears the pantheon apart. Daedalus, Odysseus, Herodotus, and Tiresias must discover who stole the diadem and return it before it is
Dungeon Crawl Classics: Steal Dracula’s Gold 28.09.2015 3:18:19
DRACULA HAS TOO DAMN MUCH GOLD. Also he’s been kind of a jerk lately, what with the blood drainings and whatnot. So a group of peasants march on his castle to deal with him once and for all. They hope their superior numbers will result in victory, jamming death traps
Monsters and Other Childish Things – To Get Home, We Leave Things Behind 27.08.2015 2:50:55
The White Forest Institute is a mental health group home for children who have been determined to be a threat to themselves or others. Some children who have been misdiagnosed due to the antics of their monsters, and explaining it that way will get you the appropriate anti-hallucinatory medications. Some
13th Age: The Shadows of Eldolan – part 2 20.06.2015 3:55:31
The investigation into the secrets of Eldolan continues. Between sorcerous assassins, cut throat gangs, and the political machinations of wizard guilds, can a group of misfit adventurers unravel a dark conspiracy that threatens the entire city? Find out who is behind the conspiracy and what tricks are up their sleeves
13th Age: The Shadows of Eldolan – part 1 15.06.2015 2:52:32
A short distance down the coast from the mighty city of Horizon, the town of Eldolan has its own problems. Students of the town’s three rival wizard schools constantly feud and create trouble for the town guard, the Silver Shields, who must clean up the wizards’ messes. The Council of
The Play’s The Thing: Macbeth 29.05.2015 1:57:53
The Play’s the Thing is an indie RPG about retelling Shakespearean plays as a collaborative effort between players. Caleb ran a session of it, using Macbeth as the play. We had a full group of players as we entered the Scottish moors, waiting for news on the war. Also, Inverness
Dungeon Crawl Classics: Sailors on the Starless Sea 29.04.2015 2:52:50
Since time immemorial you and your people have toiled in the shadow of the cyclopean ruins. Of mysterious origins and the source of many a superstition, they have always been considered a secret best left unknown by the folk of your hamlet. But now something stirs beneath the crumbling blocks.
Wield: A Not So Final Fantasy 04.03.2015 1:35:59
Wield is a fantasy RPG where each player character is a powerful magic item with suitably awesome magical powers and epic destiny. Unfortunately, they are still items and need to be wielded by an adventurer of some sort in order to actually do anything. After picking this game up at
5E Dungeons and Dragons: The Demented Dungeon 15.02.2015 2:12:27
A group of adventurers awaken in a stony tunnel with no memory of how they got there and soon realize they are trapped in a dungeon filled with strange puzzles and vicious monsters. They have no choice but to explore the dungeon and try to find a way out. Talking
Dungeon World: The Ghost Library 31.01.2015 2:45:47
We return to the Colossus Archipelago as Ovid and company quest to retrieve lore from a Ghost Library! The adventurers must brave a treacherous trip up the mountain to a most remote and haunted library guarded by deadly automatons and spirits. Even if they survive those challenges, finding one specific
Fate Core: Save Game – Castlevania 28.12.2014 2:26:43
Save Game is a setting for the Fate Core RPG about old school video games. Specifically, it’s about a group of heroes in the video game universe fighting the evil glitches that are infecting and corrupting everything and everyone. One such group of heroes has been tasked with traveling to
Dungeon World: Inverse World – The Sky Adventure Begins! 10.12.2014 3:11:40
Inverse World is a setting for Dungeon World that adds a lot of new material to the game like skyships and robots. Of course, we had to give it a shot. In this one shot, an adventurous skyship crew finds themselves in trouble in regards when a certain Eternal Majestic
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